(n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
(n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
(n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
(n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
(v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
(v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
(n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(3) Echo delay discrimination by the bat Eptesicus fuscus had been investigated in an experiment with simulated targets jittering in range (Simmons 1979).
(4) Additionally, in a group of bats, HRP was injected into various functionally (i.e., BF) identified regions of the central nucleus of the inferior coliculus (IC) to clarify the type and location of CN projecting neurons.
(5) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(6) Bats infected with the high dose had viable H. capsulatum in the lungs, liver, spleen and gut as early as 2 weeks post-infection.
(7) Sympathetic activation of lipogenesis in BAT is not solely attributable to the action of noradrenaline but involves some non-adrenergic mechanism.
(8) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(9) The relationship between the meal-induced increase in brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, determined by the level of GDP binding to BAT mitochondria, and thyroid hormone metabolism have been examined.
(10) Plasma steroid binding was examined in samples obtained from seven species of bats representing four different families.
(11) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
(12) Rates of fatty acid synthesis in liver and BAT were several times greater than that in WAT.
(13) We also identified UCP in eight cases in group B, in five cases in group C and six cases in group D. The human H-UCP-0.5 genomic probe detected a typical BAT mRNA in the periadrenal adipose tissue of all subjects of groups B, C and D showing a positive Western blot.
(14) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
(15) Excision of BAT, but not white adipose tissue increased RGE susceptibility of 21w rats.
(16) When the reference target to which the bats were trained was presented, targets differing in internal delay by about 1 microseconds were discriminated.
(17) The results suggest that BAT contains two different pathways for regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity, both involving mRNA synthesis.
(18) Bats have maximum life spans a minimum of 3 times those of nonflying eutherians--a trend resulting from neither low basal metabolic rate, the ability to enter torpor, nor large relative brain size.
(19) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
(20) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.
Whore
Definition:
(n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
(n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
(n.) To worship false and impure gods.
(v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
(2) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
(3) Club leaders, who argue that a wife should serve as a "good sex worker" and a "whore" to her husband, showed the book to journalists last month in an effort to dispel what they called misconceptions that it was obscene and demeaning to women.
(4) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
(5) "We have run all sorts of scenarios internally, some quite dramatic ... you often lose the most money on a Devil's Whore or Red Riding," he added, before reiterating that the drama budget would not be affected.
(6) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
(7) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
(8) In the end, I decided I didn't really want to embark on a new career as a tabloid hell-whore, and it wasn't until the Daily Mail carried a tame little diary item last autumn saying Max had a 'close companion' that he was semi-outed - although even then, it transpires, it was only because he granted his permission.
(9) Once I was out with friends and was asked “So will you be out whoring tonight?” Some people need educating.
(10) Rima, a Christian-Israeli Arab, has been branded a Roma, Romanian, "Jew whore" and "dirty Arab" by a family who have subjected her family to a slew of racist abuse and intimidation.
(11) "Come gentlemen," he said, "there is a little bit of the whore in all of us; name your price."
(12) Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has refused to apologise for calling the US ambassador “gay” and “the son of a whore” in remarks that sparked a diplomatic row.
(13) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
(14) On the other side of the coin, the comforting notion that anti-Muslim bigotry is confined to a handful of click-seeking media whores does not hold.
(15) He also said the US ambassador was a gay “son of a whore”.
(16) Called "whores" and "sluts", husbands shun them and police and judges can re-rape them.
(17) When the French president tells a member of the public at the Paris agricultural fair who doesn't want to shake his hand to "sod off, you cretin," why shouldn't a French footballer call his coach a "filthy son of a whore"?
(18) You are a total cunt.” At the end of the episode before that, while Hannah jealously deletes Fran’s photos of his naked ex-girlfriends, she murmurs: “What are you smiling about, you little whore?
(19) All the world’s a brothel, and we’re all whores,” he yells between saccharine renditions of the national anthem.
(20) The single went mammoth, but she found herself hated in much of France: "Whore" was scrawled on walls near her home, and she was spat at in the street.